成功的英語演講稿 模板1
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it is easy to describe success in terms of money, fame and reputation. but i believe that success is not e_ternal. i believe that success comes from within. my definition of success is to be true to yourself, and be true to others. that means, that you must cherish your personal ideal even in the face of adversity. i also believe that success is not discriminatory. success is not restricted to such a class of people, in fact, it may be achieved by any person irrespective of his race, creed, gender and economic background. a good e_ample of success is that of beethoven. he is one of the world"s most famous composers, yet he was deaf. he could not hear the majestic pieces of music that he created. yet, in the face of this adversity, he was able to maintain his ideals--that of composing music.
用金錢、名譽(yù)和聲望來描述成功，這很簡(jiǎn)單。但我相信成功不是外在的，我相信成功來源于自身。我對(duì)成功的定義是對(duì)已誠實(shí)，待人真誠。這就意味著即使面臨困境厄運(yùn)，你都必須堅(jiān)守自己的理想。我同樣相信成功沒有偏見，成功不屬于某一類人，事實(shí)上，不論種族、宗教信仰、性別和經(jīng)濟(jì)背景，任何人都能夠獲得。貝多芬的成功就是個(gè)很好的例子。他是世界上最著名的作曲家之一，而他卻雙耳失聰。他無法聽到自己創(chuàng)作出的美妙樂章。然而，身處如此逆境，他仍然能夠堅(jiān)持自己的理想 ——作曲。
to e_emplify what success means to me, i pose a question to all of you. what brings us together here today? i believe that it is the beauty of the spoken word. the effect of pause and the sound of rhetoric are unique to the spoken word. i believe the beauty of the spoken word is even stronger for those who have difficulty in e_pressing themselves. these people are reclusive and had their emotions hidden within them. i once went to australia and i saw two pictures, once was drawn by a normal child, the other was drawn by a child with social inhibitions. the picture drawn by the normal child was simple and plain. the other was life-like, full of details and imagination. what this shows is that these are ideas, emotions and feelings that are locked internally in these
children.
為了舉例說明我對(duì)成功的理解，我想給在座的諸位提一個(gè)問題。是什么讓我們大家今天在此相會(huì)?我想是語言世界的美麗讓我們走到了一起。停頓的效果和修辭之聲是話語世界所獨(dú)一無二的。我相信那些說話表達(dá)困難的人們對(duì)話語世界中的美麗體會(huì)得更為深刻。這些人都隱遁世間，把自己的感情深藏于心。我曾經(jīng)去過澳大利亞，在那里看到了兩幅畫。一幅是正常兒童畫的，另一幅是一個(gè)社會(huì)生活受限制的孩子畫的。正常的孩子畫的畫簡(jiǎn)單、樸素，而另一幅卻貼近現(xiàn)實(shí)生活，充滿了細(xì)節(jié)和想象。這表明這些孩子的思想、情緒和感受都封閉在他們的內(nèi)心深處。
my ideal is to be the key, spreading the beauty of the spoken words to these children. these children have been neglected, but i feel that i can and should help these children to find themselves and be able to e_press themselves.
我的理想是成為向這些孩子傳播話語世界美好的鑰匙。這些孩子曾被我們忽視，但我覺得我能夠也應(yīng)該幫助他們發(fā)現(xiàn)和認(rèn)識(shí)自己，并且能夠表達(dá)自己的想法。
i realize that this is a difficult task, and there are many obstacles on the way. but i believe in my ideals and i will stick to them--even in the face of adversity. we should never have a premature abortion of ideals--let the child, let our ideals, stand the challenge. for a life without ideals is not living.
我知道這是個(gè)艱巨的任務(wù)，實(shí)現(xiàn)起來會(huì)遇到許多困難和障礙。但我篤信自己的理想，并將堅(jiān)守下去——即使逆境重重。我們千萬不能對(duì)一個(gè)理想作出不成熟的棄絕決定——讓這些孩子，讓我們的理想經(jīng)受挑戰(zhàn)。因?yàn)?，沒有理想的生活是沒有生氣的。
成功的英語演講稿 模板2
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勵(lì)志成功的英語演講稿
dear all,
e_perience makes you succeedi still remembered the first time when i became a technical secondary school teacher of english literature. it seemed that it happened yesterday.
at that day, i got quite ready and i had the confidence to be a good teacher. i arrived at the classroom, eager to share my knowledge and e_perience with all the students of my class. having prepared for two days, i had no doubt to hold their attention and to impress on them my admiration for the literature.
“stand up!” the monitor spoke loudly. the entire class stood up as i entered the classroom. i was a little puzzled, but quickly that awkwardness was over, i regained my calmness and began my well-prepared lecture, sure to gain their respect--- or even their admiration. ‘i’m your english, miss jiang. today we are going to learn . . . ’ i was very pleased with work . as the bell rang, i went back to my office full of a sense of achievement. the following day when i read my students’ diaries, the rosy glow was gradually replaced by a strong sense of sadness. the first diary said, “our literature teacher didn’t teach us anything today. perhaps her ne_t lecture would be better.” greatly surprised, i read diary after diary, each e_pressed a similar theme. “didn’t i teach them anything? i described the entire framework and laid the background for the passage we would study in class,” i puzzled. “how should they say i taught them nothing?”
it was a long term, and it gradually became clear that my ideas about education weren’t the same as those of my students. i thought a teacher’s job was to raise interesting questions and provide enough background so that students could draw their own conclusions. my students thought a teacher’s job was to provide e_act information as directly and clearly as possible. what a difference! i tell myself i can handle it.’ compared to what others have been through , i’m fortunate. thinking of these sentences i felt something important struck me. i believe my life would not be that bad and it was proved to be true. later during my life and work i always told myself ‘i can handle it.’ when my own goals seemed far off or when my problems seemed too overwhelming. and every time i said it, i always came back to my senses.
now the e_perience with my students has made me learn a lot, and made me be a better english teacher.
the following year, it was september 10th. i went to class as well. when i stepped into the class, i felt surprised. there was a post card on the table, but i didn’t show it on my face. i began teaching lessons. after the class, i walked out of the class with a card in my hand. i opened the card in the office, it was a music card with words on it. it said ‘many thanks to you, miss jiang. we all love you we like your teaching.’ i was impressed by the words. how honest and simple the words were. hot tears couldn’t help dropping. at that time, i was so proud of being an english teacher.
so here, coming to us are words that can give us strength. whatever you’re going through, tell yourself you can handle it. tell this to yourself over and over, and it will help you get through the rough spots with little more fortitude.
3分鐘勵(lì)志成功的英語演講稿
belief in yourself is the secret of success
from the moment we are born, our destiny had been set. it is the start of our life. as a little child, we go to school and are curious to everything in the world.
when we get older, we tend to understand the function in this world.
we start to think, sometimes wonder about life. ne_t thing we know, we are growing up. the world is changing, and our life is changing everyday.
right now, this particular moment in our life, we think again.
we have we done in our life?
are we successful?
are we rich?
are we happy? and flashbacks starts, the memories took charge of our brain.
we reflect to ourselves, we question ourselves.
why are we not successful?
why are we not rich?
why are we not happy?
then, we need to ask how.
how to be successful?
how to be rich?
how to be happy?
with the questions, we figure out the answers. one of the dominating techqniue to be successful is first start from yourself. believe in yourself. if you don"t believe in what you can do, then who else?
if you don"t care about yourself, then who else? trust your feelings, believe that you can do it. and as long as you hold that thought, nothing, nothing can stop you.
the successful future right ahead of you are led by a pathway called belief.
英語勵(lì)志演講稿
success is everyone wants, whether it was or the cause of education. give people the joy of success.
how can we succeed? the great inventor thomas edison said, genius is 99 percent on 1 percent of the hard work and inspiration. success must be hard work. if you sleep, is unlikely to succeed.
edison invented the light bulb durable, he has done many thousands of e_periments, but still no way to enable the ability to live in high-temperature filament. ne_t to it was said: "bah! can not find even a. you have made so many e_periments, and can not find, do not white and effort, and doing anything else now!" he said: "i must ability to find a live high-temperature materials, he must find out. "work pays off, he finally invented a durable light bulb, so that the well-being of people around the world to be known as the 20th century, one of the greatest inventions.
we need to learn the spirit of his, if he was not unremitting efforts, it is impossible to invent the light bulb durability, we can see the need for the conditions of success, as long as required to meet the conditions for success, success easy.
seize the opportunity is one of the conditions for success. for e_ample it! bill gates, the world"s richest university, a keen awareness of the emerging computer industry in this huge business opportunities, he dropped out from harvard university, and with their friends opened a computer company called microsoft, when his friends friends are opposed to what he has done, but bill gates said, time will prove that i am right to do so. now, computers in all walks of life in a wide range of applications, to the people"s work and life have brought tremendous changes, microsoft has become the world"s largest software one.
there are a lot of success, for e_ample, scientific and cultural qualities of their own. without a good basic knowledge, even though hard work and a heaven-sent opportunity to succeed or not. there are left to help others, it is necessary to embark on the path of success and is e_ceptionally difficult.
to be successful, needs to be done and opportunities.
成功的英語演講稿 模板3
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ted英語演講：成功的八個(gè)秘訣(中英雙語)
this is really a two-hour presentation i give to high school students, cut down to three minutes. and it all started one day on a plane, on my way to ted, seven years ago. and in the seat ne_t to me was a high school student, a teenager, and she came from a really poor family.
這真的是一個(gè)我給高中學(xué)生做的2個(gè)小時(shí)的演講 現(xiàn)在縮到了3分鐘 所有的一切都是從7年前的一天開始， 我坐在飛往ted會(huì)議的飛機(jī)上。 在我鄰座坐的是一個(gè) 高中生，一個(gè)十幾歲的年輕人。 她生于一個(gè)貧窮的家庭 而且她的愿望是成就一番事業(yè) 所以她問了我一個(gè)簡(jiǎn)單的小問題。
and she wanted to make something of her life, and she asked me a simple little question. she said, "what leads to success?" and i felt really badly, because i couldn"t give her a good answer. so i get off the plane, and i come to ted. and i think, jeez, i"m in the middle of a room of successful people! so why don"t i ask them what helped them succeed, and pass it on to kids? so here we are, seven years, 500 interviews later, and i"m gonna tell you what really leads to success and makes ted-sters tick.
她說："怎樣做才能成功呢?" 我當(dāng)時(shí)覺得糟透了 因?yàn)槲也荒芙o她一個(gè)滿意的答案 后來我下了飛機(jī)，來到ted 忽然間我想到，天啊，我置身于一屋子成功人士之中! 為什么我不問問他們是怎樣走向成功的呢。 這樣我就可以把答案告訴孩子們了。 所以就這樣，7年中我坐了500次采訪。 現(xiàn)在我就要告訴你們是什么帶來了成功 是什么啟發(fā)了ted演講者們。
and the first thing is passion.
第一點(diǎn)是激情
freeman thomas says, "i"m driven by my passion." ted-sters do it for love; they don"t do it for money. carol coletta says, "i would pay someone to do what i do." and the interesting thing is: if you do it for love, the money comes anyway.
freeman thomas 說："我總是被我的熱情所牽引著" ted的講演者因?yàn)橛袗鄄抛鍪虑?，不是為了錢。 carol colletta 說："我會(huì)付給別人錢去做我的工作。" 有趣的是 如果你是為了愛而做的，錢自然而然就來了。
work!
刻苦
rupert murdoch said to me, "it"s all hard work. nothing comes easily. but i have a lot of fun." did he say fun? rupert? yes! ted-sters do have fun working. and they work hard. i figured, they"re notworkaholics. they"re workafrolics.
rupert murdoch 曾經(jīng)告訴過我 "都是刻苦" 為努力" "天下沒有白吃的午餐。但是我得到了很多樂趣。" 他提到了樂趣??rupert?是的! ted講演者都有一份充滿樂趣的工作，而且他們都很刻苦。 我覺得，他們都不是工作狂，他們是享受工作狂
good!
精通
ale_ garden says, "to be successful put your nose down in something and get damn good at it." there"s no magic; it"s practice, practice, practice.
ale_ garden說："要想成功，就要真的深入其中" "然后做到精通。" 想要做到精通沒有秘訣，就是練習(xí)，練習(xí)，再練習(xí)。 還
and it"s focus.
有就是專注
norman jewison said to me, "i think it all has to do with focusing yourself on one thing."
norman jewison 告訴過我， "我想成功就要使自己專注于一件事情"
and push!
強(qiáng)迫
david gallo says, "push yourself. physically, mentally, you"ve gotta push, push, push." you gotta push through shyness and self-doubt. goldie hawn says, "i always had self-doubts. i wasn"t good enough; i wasn"t smart enough. i didn"t think i"d make it." now it"s not always easy to push yourself, and that"s why they invented mothers. (laughter) frank gehry — frank gehry said to me, "my mother pushed me."
david gallo說："強(qiáng)迫你自己，" "心靈上，神情上。你一定要強(qiáng)迫，強(qiáng)迫，強(qiáng)迫。" "你要強(qiáng)迫自己去戰(zhàn)勝羞澀和自我懷疑" goldie hawn說："我總是懷疑自己。 懷疑自己不夠優(yōu)秀，不用聰明。 我從不相信我會(huì)成功。" 想要成功地強(qiáng)迫自己并不總?cè)菀祝?這就是為什么要發(fā)明媽媽。 frank gehry-frank gehry對(duì)我說： "我媽媽過去總是督促我。"
serve!
服務(wù)
sherwin nuland says, "it was a privilege to serve as a doctor." now a lot of kids tell me they want to be millionaires. and the first thing i say to them is: "ok, well you can"t serve yourself; you gotta serve others something of value. because that"s the way people really get rich."
sherwin nuland 說："能夠作為一名醫(yī)生為他人服務(wù)是一種榮幸。" 現(xiàn)在很多孩子告訴我他們想成為百萬富翁。 但是一件事我對(duì)他們說的"是， "好的，但是你不能為你自己服務(wù)，" "你需要為他人提供對(duì)他人有利的服務(wù)。" "因?yàn)檫@就是人們致富的方式。"
ideas!
點(diǎn)子
ted-ster bill gates says, "i had an idea: founding the first micro-computer software company." i"d say it was a pretty good idea. and there"s no magic to creativity in coming up with ideas — it"s just doing some very simple things. and i give lots of evidence.
ted演講者 bill gates 說："我曾經(jīng)有過一個(gè)點(diǎn)子，" 成立第一個(gè)微機(jī)軟件公司。"我必須承認(rèn)這真的是很好的一個(gè)點(diǎn)子。 對(duì)于能想出點(diǎn)子的創(chuàng)造力來講沒有什么魔力可言。 都是些簡(jiǎn)單平常的事情。 而且我可以舉出很多證據(jù)。
persist!
堅(jiān)持
joe kraus says, "persistence is the number one reason for our success." you gotta persist through failure. you gotta persist through crap! which of course means "criticism, rejection, assholes and pressure." (laughter) so, the big — the answer to this question is simple: pay 4,000 bucks and come to ted. or failing that, do the eight things — and trust me, these are the big eight things that lead to success. thank you ted-sters for all your interviews!
joe kraus 說 "恒心是我們成功地第一條原因。"你必須堅(jiān)持度過失敗，你必須堅(jiān)持度過crap，這里的crap是指"批評(píng)，拒絕，卑鄙小人和壓力" (大笑) 所以，這個(gè)問題的答案很簡(jiǎn)單： 付4000塊來ted會(huì)場(chǎng)。 如果不能來，就做到以上八點(diǎn)---相信我， 這重要的八點(diǎn)就是通向成功的秘訣。 謝謝ted講演者參與我的采訪!
成功的英語演講稿 模板4
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成功的定義英文演講稿
my definition of success
“once upon a time， there was a king who had a daughter as beautiful as a blooming rose. to all the suitors who came to the king"s palace to ask for the hand of the princess, the old king assigned three tasks to be accomplished, each ne_t to impossible. one day, into the king"s palace came a handsome young prince..." well, you know the rest. the three tasks may be different in different versions, but the main plot is always the same, with the prince claiming the princess"s hand triumphantly.and the ending is always the same, finishing with the line "and they live happily every after."
why aren"t we tired of something so fanciful, so unrealistic, and, i would say, so unimaginative? how can a story like that endure generations of repetition`? because, i think, it is a typical success story. it is highly philosophical and symbolic. by implication, we see a 4-step definition of success: 1 ) a goal to be set. as represented by the beautiful princess; 2 ) challenges to be met, as represented by the three tasks; 3 ) the process of surmounting difficulties, as represented by the ordeals the youth goes through; and 4 ) the reward of success, as represented by the happy marriage.
the story not only caters to everyone"s inward yearning for success, but also emphasizes the inseparability of the process and the result. the reward of success will be much amplified if the path leading towards it is treacherous, and vice versa. if a person inherits his father"s millions and leads an easy life, he is not a successful person even in material terms, because there are no difficulties involved in his achieving affluence. the term "success", to be sure. will not sit still for easy definition. but as i understand it, the true meaning of success entails a combination of both the process and the satisfactory result of an endeavor. to clarify my view, let me give another analogy.
if we changed the rules of football, greatly enlarged the goal and sent away david seaman or any other goal keeper, so that another david, namely david beckham, could score easily, then scoring would not give him the thrill of accomplishment and the joy that it brings. if we further changed the rules by not allowing arsenal"s defenders to defend, so that beckham needed only to lift a finger, actually a toe, to score, then there would be no game at all, because the meaning of winning would have disappeared. in accepting the challenge, in surmounting the difficulties and in enduring the hardship, success acquires its value. the sense of attainment varies in proportion to the degree of difficulties on overcomes.
the concept of success is not constant but relative because the nature of difficulty is also relative. something you do effortlessly might pose a great difficulty for a handicapped person. in acquiring the ability to do the same as you can, he or she achieve success. that"s why we greatly admire stephen hawking, because, though confined to a wheel chair, he has contributed greatly to the field of science.
i myself, a rather shy person by nature who easily suffer from stage fright, had to pluck up great courage to take part in a speech contest like this. i could have stayed away and had an easy time of it by not entering the university level contest.but i chose to accept the challenge and to face the difficulties. now here i am. if i come out first, it will be a great success for me. if i come out last-i hope this will not be the case-but if i come out last, i will not call my attempt a failure, but will also celebrate it as a true success, because part of my goal is my own character training-to do more assertive, to be brave in face of difficulties. for me, it is a meaningful step forward, small as it is, in the long journey toward the final success in my life, because i have truly gained by participating.
let us return to our handsome young prince and the 4-step definition of success. you my have noticed that the usual worldly criteria of wealth, position and fame were not mentioned as part of the story, but rather, it emphasized the process of overcoming difficulties. the ancient wisdom had already defined the meaning of success, and this is my definition, too.
thank you.
譯文:成功之我見
很久以前，有個(gè)國王，他的女兒貌美如花。老國王向所有來求婚的男士提出了三個(gè)任務(wù)作為挑戰(zhàn)，而每一項(xiàng)任務(wù)都異常艱巨，幾乎不可能完成。一天，來了一位年輕英俊的王子……”好了，下面的故事你們都知道了。三項(xiàng)任務(wù)在不同的版本中各不相同，但關(guān)鍵部分的情節(jié)都如出一轍:王子成功地過關(guān)，得到了公主的芳心。而故事的結(jié)局也都一樣，最后一句都寫道:“從此他們幸福地生活在一起。 為什么我們對(duì)如此美妙、如此不切實(shí)際,而我要說,如此缺乏想象力的東西這么樂此不疲呢?這樣的故事又如何能夠經(jīng)歷幾代人的重復(fù)?我想，因?yàn)樗堑湫偷某晒Φ睦?。故事的思想性很?qiáng)，具有代表性。通過故事帶給我們的啟示，我們認(rèn)識(shí)到了成功定義中的四個(gè)步驟;第一，目標(biāo)的設(shè)定，有如故事里美麗的公主;第二，所遇到的困難和挑戰(zhàn)，就像三大任務(wù);第三，克服困難的過程，故事中青年經(jīng)歷重重難關(guān)可以作為象征;第四，就是成功的果實(shí)，如同幸福的婚姻。 這個(gè)故事不僅迎合了人們內(nèi)心深處對(duì)成功的向往，也強(qiáng)調(diào)了過程和結(jié)果的不可分離。如果通往成功的道路崎嶇曲折，那么成功的回報(bào)必然碩果累累，反之亦然。如果一個(gè)人繼承了父輩的百萬家產(chǎn)而生活得輕松富足，那么，即使在物質(zhì)上，他也不能算是個(gè)成功人士，因?yàn)?，他的?cái)富并沒有經(jīng)過艱難困苦而獲得。確切地說，“成功”這個(gè)詞，不是個(gè)靜態(tài)簡(jiǎn)單的定義。在我的理解中，真正意義上的成功是奮斗的過程和經(jīng)歷了奮斗之后贏得的滿意的結(jié)果。請(qǐng)讓我另舉一例來闡明我的見解。 如果我們?cè)囍淖冏闱虻谋荣愐?guī)則，將球門放得很大，換下大衛(wèi)·希曼或其他任何的守門員，這樣，隨便哪個(gè)“大衛(wèi)”，比如說，“大衛(wèi)·貝克漢姆”，就可以輕松進(jìn)球，然而這樣進(jìn)一球卻不能給他帶來成功的震顫與喜悅。如果我們?cè)俑囊桓谋荣愐?guī)則，不讓阿森納隊(duì)的防守來守門，那么，貝克漢姆只要?jiǎng)觿?dòng)手，其實(shí)就是抬抬腳就能進(jìn)一球，那樣的話、，實(shí)際上也沒有什么比賽可言了，因?yàn)橼A球的意義已經(jīng)不存在了。在接受挑戰(zhàn)、克服困難和經(jīng)歷磨難的過程中，“成功”的價(jià)值才得以豐滿。取得成果的意義和所克服的艱難的程度成正比。所謂成功的概念不是一成不變的.而曇相對(duì)而言的,因?yàn)槔щy的性質(zhì)也是相對(duì)意義上的。 正常人不費(fèi)力氣做成的事對(duì)于一個(gè)殘疾人來說也許相當(dāng)困難。獲得了同正常人一樣的能力，這個(gè)殘疾人就獲得了成功。這便是我們?yōu)槭裁闯缇词返俜摇せ艚鸬脑?mdash;雖然行動(dòng)不便，受到了輪椅的限制，他依然為科學(xué)界作出了巨大的貢獻(xiàn)。 就我自己而言，生性羞澀，容易怯場(chǎng)，不得不鼓起非常大的勇氣來參加此次的演講比賽。我完全可以待在一邊，不參加大學(xué)級(jí)別的比賽，而落得輕松自在。可是，我還是選擇了接受這一挑戰(zhàn)來面對(duì)困難?，F(xiàn)在我來了，如果我能夠得第一的話.這對(duì)我來說就是巨大的成功。如果，我是最后一名—我希望情況不是這樣—但如果我真的是最后一名，我也不會(huì)認(rèn)為這次的嘗試是一次失敗，反而我要把它當(dāng)作一次真正的成功來慶賀，因?yàn)槲乙徊糠值哪繕?biāo)是對(duì)自己性格的鍛煉—更加堅(jiān)強(qiáng)、勇敢地面對(duì)困難。對(duì)我來說，這標(biāo)志著我在通向成功人生的漫漫征途中又向前邁進(jìn)了一步，盡管是很小的一步，但是我確實(shí)通過參與真正地獲得了收益。
回到我們年輕英俊的王子和對(duì)“成功”的四步驟定義上吧，您也許已經(jīng)注意到了財(cái)富、地位和名譽(yù)等這些世俗的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)在故事中并未提及，相反故事強(qiáng)調(diào)了克服重重困難的過程。古代的智慧已經(jīng)對(duì)成功的意義下了定義，這也是我的定義。
謝謝!
5分鐘成功的定義英文演講稿
today i am very glad to be here to share with you my ideas of success. what is success? it is what everyone is longing for.sometimes success would be rather simple. winning a game is success; getting a high grade in the e_am is success; making a new friend is success; even now i am standing here giving my speech is somehow also success.
however, as a person’s whole life is concerned, success becomes very
complicated. is fortune success? is fame success? is high social status success? no, i don’t think so. i believe success is the realization of people’s hopes and ideals.nowadays, in the modern society there are many people who are regarded as the successful. and the most obvious characteristics of hem are money, high position and lu_urious life. so most people believe that s success and all that they do is for this purpose. but the problem is wether it is real success. we all know there are always more money, higher position and better condition in front of us. if we keep chasing them, where is the end? what will satisfy us at last? therefore, we can see, to get the real success we must need something inside, which is the realization of people’ hopes and ideals.
different people have different ideas about success; cause people’s hopes and ideas vary from one another. but i am sure every success is dear to everybody, cause it is not easy to come by, cause in the process of our striving for success, we got both our body and soul tempted, meanwhile we are enlightened by the most valuable qualities of human beings: love, patient, courage and sense of responsibility. these are the best treasures. so now i am very proud that i have this opportunity to stand here speaking to all of you. it is my success, cause i raise up to challenge my hope.
what is success? everyone has his own interpretation as i do. but i am sure every success leads to an ever-brighter future. so ladies and gentlemen, believe in our hopes, believe in ourselves, we, every one of us, can make a successful life!
wish you all good success
今天我很高興來到這里與你們分享我的想法的成功。什么是成功?這是每個(gè)人都渴望。有時(shí)成功是相當(dāng)簡(jiǎn)單。贏得一場(chǎng)比賽是成功,獲得優(yōu)質(zhì)的考試成功;做一個(gè)新朋友是成功,甚至我現(xiàn)在站在這里給我的演講也以某種方式成功。
然而,隨著一個(gè)人的一生來說,成功變得非常
復(fù)雜。是財(cái)富的成功?名人的成功嗎?高社會(huì)地位的成功?不,我不這么認(rèn)為。我相信成功是實(shí)現(xiàn)人民的希望和理想。如今,在現(xiàn)代社會(huì)有很多人被認(rèn)為是成功的。和下擺的最明顯的特征是錢,高位置和奢侈的生活。所以大多數(shù)人認(rèn)為成功和他們做的一切是為了這個(gè)目的。但問題是是否它是真正的成功。我們都知道總有更多的錢,較高的位置和更好的條件在我們面前。如果我們繼續(xù)追逐,盡頭在哪里?最后將滿足我們什么?因此,我們可以看到,獲得真正的成功,我們必須需要的東西在里面,這是人們的希望和理想的實(shí)現(xiàn)。
不同的人有不同的想法關(guān)于成功;引起人們的希望和想法不同。但是我相信每一個(gè)成功是親愛的大家,因?yàn)樗遣蝗菀椎?因?yàn)樵谖覀冏非蟪晒Φ倪^程中,我們有兩個(gè)我們的身體和靈魂的誘惑,與此同時(shí)我們開明的人類的最寶貴的品質(zhì):愛、耐心、勇氣和責(zé)任感。這些是最好的財(cái)富?，F(xiàn)在我很自豪,因?yàn)槲矣袡C(jī)會(huì)站在這里跟大家說話。這是我的成功,因?yàn)槲遗e起來挑戰(zhàn)我的希望。
什么是成功?每個(gè)人都有自己的解釋和我一樣。但我相信每一個(gè)成功導(dǎo)致了浦江的未來。所以,女士們,先生們,相信我們的希望,相信自己,我們,我們每一個(gè)人,可以讓一個(gè)成功的人生!
祝你一切美好的成功!
英語演講稿成功的定義篇
have you ever thought why there are very few great people? i think there is probably only one great person out of 10,000 at best, and most probably much less than that. but why? most people want to be great, right? why are there only very few of them? here is the reason:
你有沒有想過為什么成功的人那么少?我想，大概在一萬個(gè)人里有一個(gè)人能獲得成功就很好了。但是為什么會(huì)這樣呢?我們大多數(shù)人都渴望成功，不是嗎?那為什么成功的人還是屈指可數(shù)呢?原因如下：
most people do not pay the price of greatness.
大多數(shù)人沒有為成功付出代價(jià)。
i think this one is quite obvious. now, the ne_t question is: why not? if there are so many people who want to be great, why only very few of them actually pay the price? the answer to these questions e_plains the difference between the almost 100% people who want to be great and the much less than 0.01% who actually be so.
這個(gè)答案顯而易見。那么，就引出了下一個(gè)問題：為什么有那么多人想要成功，而只有很少數(shù)的人愿意為成功付出代價(jià)呢?這個(gè)問題的答案就能把0.01%真正獲得成功的人和幾乎是100%想要獲得成功的人給區(qū)分開來。
the reason why very few people actually pay the price is this: the road to greatness is continuously painful for long time.
極少數(shù)人愿意為成功付出代價(jià)的真正原因在于：成功之路須要長(zhǎng)期痛苦的堅(jiān)持。
greatness requires sacrifices and there is no sacrifice without pain. the kind of sacrifices required for greatness is the ones that make the process continuously painful for long time. if you want to be good it will be painful only every now and then, and many people can still handle it. but being great is a totally different level. the pain is much deeper and it is continuous. very few people can endure this kind of pain and that’s why there are very few great people. most people naturally choose things that bring pleasures to them. it’s unnatural to choose pain over pleasure, let alone doing it continuously for long time.
成功須要犧牲，而所有的犧牲都伴隨著痛苦。獲得成功所需要的犧牲是長(zhǎng)期的、痛苦的。如果你的目標(biāo)是優(yōu)秀，那可能只是“短痛”而已，很多人還是可以承受得住的。但是，想要成功，那么所需要承受得就是“長(zhǎng)痛”了。大多數(shù)人會(huì)選擇能給自己帶來快樂的事物，這是自然的選擇。很少有人會(huì)拋開快樂去選擇痛苦，更不用說是長(zhǎng)期的痛苦了。
but that’s what i believe is the secret to greatness: the secret to greatness is choosing pain over pleasures continuously for long time.
但是正是上述原因讓我相信，成功的秘密就在于：選擇痛苦而不是快樂，并能夠長(zhǎng)期堅(jiān)持承受痛苦。
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演說題目：8 secrets of success
演說者：richard st. john
this is really a two-hour presentation i give to high school students, cut down to three minutes. and it all started one day on a plane, on my way to ted, seven years ago. and in the seat ne_t to me was a high school student, a teenager, and she came from a really poor family.
這真的是一個(gè)我給高中學(xué)生做的2個(gè)小時(shí)的演講，現(xiàn)在縮到了3分鐘。所有的一切都是從7年前的一天開始，我坐在飛往ted會(huì)議的飛機(jī)上。在我鄰座坐的是一個(gè)高中生，一個(gè)十幾歲的年輕人。她生于一個(gè)貧窮的家庭而且她的愿望是成就一番事業(yè)。
and she wanted to make something of her life, and she asked me a simple little question. she said, "what leads to success?"and i felt really badly, because i couldn"t give her a good answer.
所以她問了我一個(gè)簡(jiǎn)單的小問題。她說："怎樣做才能成功呢?" 我當(dāng)時(shí)覺得糟透了，因?yàn)槲也荒芙o她一個(gè)滿意的答案。
so i get off the plane, and i come to ted. and i think, jeez, i"m in the middle of a room of successful people! so why don"t i ask them what helped them succeed, and pass it on to kids? so here we are, seven years, 500 interviews later, and i"m going to tell you what really leads to success and makes tedsters tick.
后來我下了飛機(jī)，來到ted，忽然間我想到，天啊，我置身于一屋子成功人士之中!為什么我不問問他們是怎樣走向成功的呢。這樣我就可以把答案告訴孩子們了。所以就這樣，7年中我坐了500次采訪?，F(xiàn)在我就要告訴你們是什么帶來了成功，是什么啟發(fā)了ted演講者們。
and the first thing is passion. freeman thomas says, "i"m driven by my passion." tedsters do it for love; they don"t do it for money.
第一點(diǎn)是激情，freeman thomas 說："我總是被我的熱情所牽引著" ted的講演者因?yàn)橛袗鄄抛鍪虑椋皇菫榱隋X。
carol coletta says, "i would pay someone to do what i do." and the interesting thing is: if you do it for love, the money comes anyway.
carol colletta 說："我會(huì)付給別人錢去做我的工作。" 有趣的是，如果你是為了愛而做的，錢自然而然就來了。
work! rupert murdoch said to me, "it"s all hard work. nothing comes easily. but i have a lot of fun." did he say fun? rupert? yes!
刻苦!rupert murdoch曾經(jīng)告訴過我 "都是刻苦" 為努力" "天下沒有白吃的午餐。但是我得到了很多樂趣。" 他提到了樂趣rupert?是的!
tedsters do have fun working. and they work hard. i figured, they"re not workaholics. they"re workafrolics.
ted講演者都有一份充滿樂趣的工作，而且他們都很刻苦。我覺得，他們都不是工作狂，他們是享受工作狂 精通!
good!ale_ garden says, "to be successful, put your nose down in something and get damn good at it."there"s no magic; it"s practice, practice, practice.
ale_ garden說："要想成功，就要真的深入其中""然后做到精通。" 想要做到精通沒有秘訣，就是練習(xí)，練習(xí)，再練習(xí)。
and it"s focus. norman jewison said to me, "i think it all has to do with focusing yourself on one thing."and push! david gallo says, "push yourself. physically, mentally, you"ve got to push, push, push."you"ve got to push through shyness and self-doubt.
還有就是專注。norman jewison 告訴過我， "我想成功就要使自己專注于一件事情" 強(qiáng)迫!david gallo說："強(qiáng)迫你自己，" "心靈上，神情上。你一定要強(qiáng)迫，強(qiáng)迫，強(qiáng)迫。" "你要強(qiáng)迫自己去戰(zhàn)勝羞澀和自我懷疑"
goldie hawn says, "i always had self-doubts. i wasn"t good enough; i wasn"t smart enough. i didn"t think i"d make it."now it"s not always easy to push yourself, and that"s why they invented mothers
goldie hawn說："我總是懷疑自己。懷疑自己不夠優(yōu)秀，不用聰明。我從不相信我會(huì)成功。" 想要成功地強(qiáng)迫自己并不總?cè)菀?，這就是為什么要發(fā)明媽媽。
(applause) frank gehry said to me, "my mother pushed me."serve! sherwin nuland says, "it was a privilege to serve as a doctor."
frank gehry-frank gehry對(duì)我說： "我媽媽過去總是督促我。" 服務(wù)!sherwin nuland 說："能夠作為一名醫(yī)生為他人服務(wù)是一種榮幸。"
a lot of kids want to be millionaires. the first thing i say is: "ok, well you can"t serve yourself; you"ve got to serve others something of value. because that"s the way people really get rich."
現(xiàn)在很多孩子告訴我他們想成為百萬富翁。 但是一件事我對(duì)他們說的是， "好的，但是你不能為你自己服務(wù)，" "你需要為他人提供對(duì)他人有利的服務(wù)。" "因?yàn)檫@就是人們致富的方式。" 點(diǎn)子。
ideas! tedster bill gates says, "i had an idea: founding the first micro-computer software company."i"d say it was a pretty good idea. and there"s no magic to creativity in coming up with ideas — it"s just doing some very simple things. and i give lots of evidence.
ted演講者bill gates 說："我曾經(jīng)有過一個(gè)點(diǎn)子，" "成立第一個(gè)微機(jī)軟件公司。" 我必須承認(rèn)這真的是很好的一個(gè)點(diǎn)子。對(duì)于能想出點(diǎn)子的創(chuàng)造力來講沒有什么魔力可言。都是些簡(jiǎn)單平常的事情。而且我可以舉出很多證據(jù)。
persist! joe kraus says, "persistence is the number one reason for our success." you"ve got to persist through failure. you"ve got to persist through crap! which of course means "criticism, rejection, assholes and pressure."
堅(jiān)持。joe kraus 說 "恒心是我們成功地第一條原因。" "你必須堅(jiān)持度過失敗，你必須堅(jiān)持度過crap" "這里的crap是指"批評(píng)，拒絕，卑鄙小人和壓力"
so, the answer to this question is simple: pay 4,000 bucks and come to ted.or failing that, do the eight things — and trust me, these are the big eight things that lead to success.
所以，這個(gè)問題的答案很簡(jiǎn)單：付4000塊來ted會(huì)場(chǎng)。如果不能來，就做到以上八點(diǎn)—-相信我， 這重要的八點(diǎn)就是通向成功的秘訣。
thank you tedsters for all your interviews!(applause)
謝謝ted講演者參與我的采訪!
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belief in yourself is the secret of success
from the moment we are born, our destiny had been set. it is the start of our life. as a little child, we go to school and are curious to everything in the world.
when we get older, we tend to understand the function in this world.
we start to think, sometimes wonder about life. ne_t thing we know, we are growing up. the world is changing, and our life is changing everyday.
right now, this particular moment in our life, we think again.
we have we done in our life?
are we successful?
are we rich?
are we happy? and flashbacks starts, the memories took charge of our brain.
we reflect to ourselves, we question ourselves.
why are we not successful?
why are we not rich?
why are we not happy?
then, we need to ask how.
how to be successful?
how to be rich?
how to be happy?
with the questions, we figure out the answers. one of the dominating techqniue to be successful is first start from yourself. believe in yourself. if you don"t believe in what you can do, then who else?
if you don"t care about yourself, then who else? trust your feelings, believe that you can do it. and as long as you hold that thought, nothing, nothing can stop you.
the successful future right ahead of you are led by a pathway called belief.
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no winning or no losing
perhaps the sky is still blue, but i can see the black sky. perhaps the flowers are still beautiful, but i can see the ugly flowers. perhaps the sun still shines, but there’s no sun in my world. perhaps the world doesn’t change, but my world is changing. the e_am has been over, but i can’t wake up because i think i did very badly.
but i know, even if you didn’t do well this time, but you can do well ne_t time. time can’t run backwards, you can try your best to do something well in the future.
i think, there’s no winning or losing in the world. tomorrow, the sun rises again; we will have a new day!
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演說題目：我們不該放棄對(duì)成功的想象!
演講者：alain de botton
中英文翻譯：
for me they normally happen, these career crises, often, actually, on a sunday evening, just as the sun is starting to set,
我經(jīng)常對(duì)事業(yè)感到恐慌，周日下午，晚霞灑滿天空，
and the gap between my hopes for myself and the reality of my life starts to diverge so painfully that i normally end up weeping into a pillow.
我的理想和現(xiàn)實(shí)的差距卻是這樣殘酷，令我沮喪的只想抱頭痛哭。
i"m mentioning all this -- i"m mentioning all this because i think this is not merely a personal problem; you may think i"m wrong in this, but i think we live in an age when our lives are regularly punctuated by career crises,
我提出這件事是因?yàn)椋艺J(rèn)為不只有我這么感覺。你可能不這么認(rèn)為，但我感覺我們活在一個(gè)充滿事業(yè)恐慌的時(shí)代，
by moments when what we thought we knew -- about our lives, about our careers -- comes into contact with a threatening sort of reality.
就在我們認(rèn)為我們已經(jīng)理解我們的人生和事業(yè)時(shí)，真實(shí)便來恐嚇我們。
it"s perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living. it"s perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career an_iety. i want to look now, if i may, at some of the reasons why we might be feeling an_iety about our careers.
現(xiàn)在或許比以前更容易過上好生活，但卻比以前更難保持冷靜，或不為事業(yè)感到焦慮。今天我想要檢視，我們對(duì)事業(yè)感到焦慮的一些原因，
why we might be victims of these career crises, as we"re weeping softly into our pillows. one of the reasons why we might be suffering is that we are surrounded by snobs.
為何我們會(huì)變成事業(yè)焦慮的囚徒。不時(shí)抱頭痛哭，折磨人的因素之一是，我們身邊的那些勢(shì)利鬼。
in a way, i"ve got some bad news, particularly to anybody who"s come to o_ford from abroad. there"s a real problem with snobbery, because sometimes people from outside the u.k. imagine that snobbery is a distinctively u.k. phenomenon, fi_ated on country houses and titles.
對(duì)那些來訪牛津大學(xué)的外國友人，我有一個(gè)壞消息，這里的人都很勢(shì)利。有時(shí)候，英國以外的人會(huì)想象，勢(shì)利是英國人特有的個(gè)性，來自那些鄉(xiāng)間別墅和頭銜爵位。
the bad news is that"s not true. snobbery is a global phenomenon; we area global organization, this is a global phenomenon. what is a snob? a snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. that is snobbery.
壞消息是，并不只是這樣，勢(shì)利是一個(gè)全球性的問題，我們是個(gè)全球性的組織，這是個(gè)全球性的問題，它確實(shí)存在。勢(shì)利是什么?，勢(shì)利是以一小部分的你，來判別你的全部?jī)r(jià)值，那就是勢(shì)利。
the dominant kind of snobbery that e_ists nowadays is job snobbery. you encounter it within minutes at a party, when you get asked that famous iconic question of the early 21st century, "what do you do?"
今日最主要的勢(shì)利，就是對(duì)職業(yè)的勢(shì)利。你在派對(duì)中不用一分鐘就能體會(huì)到，當(dāng)你被問到這個(gè)21世紀(jì)初，最有代表性的問題：你是做什么的?
according to how you answer that question, people are either incredibly delighted to see you, or look at their watch and make their e_cuses.
你的答案將會(huì)決定對(duì)方接下來的反應(yīng)，對(duì)方可能對(duì)你在場(chǎng)感到榮幸，或是開始看表，然后想個(gè)借口離開。
now, the opposite of a snob is your mother.not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn"t care about your achievements.
勢(shì)利鬼的另一個(gè)極端，是你的母親。不一定是你我的母親，而是一個(gè)理想母親的想象，一個(gè)永遠(yuǎn)義無反顧的愛你，不在乎你是否功成名就的人。
unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.
不幸地，大部分世人都不懷有這種母愛，大部分世人決定要花費(fèi)多少時(shí)間，給于多少愛，不一定是浪漫的那種愛，雖然那也包括在內(nèi)，世人所愿意給我們的關(guān)愛、尊重，取決于我們的社會(huì)地位。
and that"s a lot of the reason why we care so much about our careers and indeed start caring so much about material goods. you know, we"re often told that we live in very materialistic times, that we"re all greedy people. i don"t think we are particularly materialistic.
這就是為什么我們?nèi)绱嗽诤跏聵I(yè)和成就，以及看重金錢和物質(zhì)的原因。我們時(shí)常被告知我們處在一個(gè)物質(zhì)掛帥的時(shí)代，我們都是貪婪的人。
i think we live in a society which has simply pegged certain emotional rewards to the acquisition of material goods. it"s not the material goods we want;
我并不認(rèn)為我們特別看重物質(zhì)，而是活在一個(gè)物質(zhì)能帶來大量情感反饋的時(shí)代。
it"s the rewards we want. it"s a new way of looking at lu_ury goods. the ne_t time you see somebody driving a ferrari, don"t think, "this is somebody who"s greedy."
我們想要的不是物質(zhì)，而是背后的情感反饋，這賦予奢侈品一個(gè)嶄新的意義。下次你看到那些開著法拉利跑車的人，你不要想"這個(gè)人很貪婪"，
think, "this is somebody who is incredibly vulnerable and in need of love." feel sympathy, rather than contempt.
而是"這是一個(gè)無比脆弱、急需愛的人"，也就是說，同情他們，不要鄙視他們。
there are other reasons --there are other reasons why it"s perhaps harder now to feel calm than ever before. one of these, and it"s parado_ical, because it"s linked to something that"s rather nice, is the hope we all have for our careers.
還有一些其他的理由，使得我們更難獲得平靜。這有些矛盾，因?yàn)閾碛凶约旱氖聵I(yè)，是一件不錯(cuò)的事，
never before have e_pectations been so high about what human beings can achieve with their life span.we"re told, from many sources, that any onecan achieve anything.
但同時(shí)，人們也從未對(duì)自己的短暫一生有過這么高的期待。這個(gè)世界用許多方法告訴我們，我們無所不能。
we"ve done away with the caste system, we are now in a system where anyone can rise to any position they please. and it"s a beautiful idea. along with that is a kind of spirit of equality;
我們不再受限于階級(jí)，而是只要靠著努力就能攀上我們想到的高度。這是個(gè)美麗的理想，出于一種生而平等的精神，
we"re all basically equal. there are no strictly defined hierarchies. there is one really big problem with this, and that problem is envy.
我們基本上是平等的，沒有任何明顯的階級(jí)存在。這造成了一個(gè)嚴(yán)重的問題，這個(gè)問題是嫉妒。
envy, it"s a real taboo to mention envy, but if there"s one dominant emotion in modern society, that is envy. and it"s linked to the spirit of equality.
嫉妒在今日是一種禁忌話題，但這個(gè)社會(huì)上最普遍的感受，便是嫉妒。嫉妒來自生而平等的精神。
let me e_plain. i think it would be very unusual for anyone here, or anyone watching, to be envious of the queen of england. even though she is much richer than any of you are, and she"s got a very large house, the reason why we don"t envy her is because she"s too weird.
這么說吧，我想在場(chǎng)的各位，或是觀看這個(gè)影片的眾位，很少有人會(huì)嫉妒英國女皇。雖然她比我們都更加富有，住在一個(gè)巨大的房子里，我們不會(huì)嫉妒她的原因是她太怪異了。
she"s simply too strange. we can"t relate to her, she speaks in a funny way, she comes from an odd place. so we can"t relate to her, and when you can"t relate to somebody, you don"t envy them.
她太怪了，我們無法想象自己與她扯上關(guān)系，她的語調(diào)令人發(fā)噱，來自一個(gè)奇怪的地方，我們與她毫無關(guān)聯(lián)。當(dāng)你認(rèn)為你與這個(gè)人毫無關(guān)聯(lián)時(shí)，你便不會(huì)嫉妒。
the closer two people are -- in age, in background, in the process of identification -- the more there"s a danger of envy, which is incidentally why none of you should ever go to a school reunion, because there is no stronger reference point than people one was at school with.
越是兩個(gè)年齡、背景相近的人，越容易陷入嫉妒的苦海，所以千萬避免去參加同學(xué)會(huì)。因?yàn)闆]有比同學(xué)，更強(qiáng)烈的參照點(diǎn)了。
the problem of modern society is it turns the whole world into a school. everybody"s wearing jeans, everybody"s the same. and yet, they"re not. so there"s a spirit of equality combined with deep inequality, which can make for a very stressful situation.
今日社會(huì)的問題是，它把全世界變成了一個(gè)學(xué)校，每個(gè)人都穿著牛仔褲，每個(gè)人都一樣。但并非如此，當(dāng)生而平等的概念遇上現(xiàn)實(shí)中懸殊的不平等，巨大的壓力就出現(xiàn)了。
it"s probably as unlikely that you would nowadays become as rich and famous as bill gates, as it was unlikely in the17th century that you would accede to the ranks of the french aristocracy.
今日你變得像比爾-蓋茨一樣，有錢又出名的機(jī)會(huì)，大概就跟你在十七世紀(jì)，成為法國貴族一樣困難。
but the point is, it doesn"t feel that way. it"s made to feel, by magazines and other media outlets, that if you"ve got energy, a few bright ideas about technology, a garage -- you, too, could start a major thing.
但重點(diǎn)是，感覺卻差別很大。今日的雜志和其它媒體讓我們感覺，只要你有沖勁、對(duì)科技有一些新穎的想法，再加上一個(gè)車庫，你就可以踏上比爾的道路。
the consequences of this problem make themselves felt in bookshops. when you go to a large bookshop and look at the self-help sections, as i sometimes do -- if you analyze self-help book sproduced in the world today, there are basically two kinds.
我們可以從書店中感受到這些問題所造成的后果，當(dāng)你像我一樣到大型書店里的，自我?guī)椭鷷?。如果你分析現(xiàn)在出版的這些自我?guī)椭悤?，它們基本上分成兩種，
the first kind tells you, "you can do it! you can make it! anything"s possible!" the other kind tells you how to cope with what we politely call "low self-esteem," or impolitely call, "feeling very bad about yourself."
第一種告訴你"你做得到!你能成功!沒有不可能!"另外一種則教導(dǎo)你如何處理，我們婉轉(zhuǎn)地稱呼為"缺乏自信"，或是直接了當(dāng)?shù)胤Q為"自我感覺極差"。
there"s a real correlation between a society that tells people that they can do anything, and the e_istence of low self-esteem. so that"s another way in which something quite positive can have a nasty kickback.
這兩者中間有著絕對(duì)的關(guān)聯(lián)，一個(gè)告訴人們他們無所不能的社會(huì)，和缺乏自信有著絕對(duì)的關(guān)聯(lián)。另一件好事也會(huì)帶來壞影響的例子，
there is another reason why we might be feeling more an_ious --about our careers, about our status in the world today, than ever before. and it"s, again, linked to something nice. and that nice thing is called meritocracy.
還有一些其它原因造成我們對(duì)事業(yè)，對(duì)我們?cè)谑郎系牡匚桓械角八从械慕箲]，再一次地，它也和好的概念有關(guān)，這個(gè)好概念叫做"功績(jī)主義"。
everybody, all politicians on left and right, agree that meritocracy is a great thing, and we should all be trying to make our societies really, really meritocratic. in other words -- what is a meritocratic society?
現(xiàn)在，無論是左傾還是右傾的政治人物，都同意"功績(jī)主義"是個(gè)好事。我們應(yīng)該盡力讓我們的社會(huì)崇尚"功績(jī)主義"，換句話說，一個(gè)崇尚"功績(jī)主義"的社會(huì)是什么樣的呢?
a meritocratic society is one in which, if you"ve got talent and energy and skill, you will get to the top, nothing should hold you back. it"s a beautiful idea.
一個(gè)崇尚功績(jī)主義的社會(huì)相信，如果你有才能、精力和技術(shù)，你就會(huì)飛黃騰達(dá)，沒有什么能阻止你，這是個(gè)美好的想法。
the problem is, if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you"ll also, by implication, and in a far more nasty way, believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.
問題是，如果你打從心里相信，那些在社會(huì)頂層的人都是精英，同時(shí)你也暗示著，以一種殘忍的方法，相信那些在社會(huì)底層的人，天生就該在社會(huì)底層，
i nother words, your position in life comes to seem not accidental, but merited and deserved. and that makes failure seem much more crushing.
換句話說，你在社會(huì)的地位不是偶然，而都是你配得的，這種想法讓失敗變得更殘忍。
you know, in the middle ages, in england, when you met a very poor person, that person would be described as an "unfortunate" -- literally, somebody who had not been blessed by fortune, an unfortunate.
你知道，在中世紀(jì)的英國，但你遇見一個(gè)非常窮苦的人，你會(huì)認(rèn)為他"不走運(yùn)"，直接地說，那些不被幸運(yùn)之神眷顧的人。
nowadays, particularly in the united states, if you meet someone at the bottom of society, they may unkindly be described as a "loser." there"s a real difference between an unfortunate and a loser,
不幸的人，尤其在美國，如果人們遇見一些社會(huì)底層的人，他們被刻薄地形容成"失敗者"，"不走運(yùn)"和"失敗者"中間有很大的差別，
and that shows 400 years of evolution in society and our belief in who is responsible for our lives. it"s no longer the gods, it"s us. we"re in the driving seat.
這表現(xiàn)了四百年的社會(huì)演變，我們對(duì)誰該為人生負(fù)責(zé)看法的改變，神不再掌握我們的命運(yùn)，我們掌握自己的人生。
that"s e_hilarating if you"re doing well, and very crushing if you"re not. it leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like emil durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide.
如果你做的很好，這是件令人愉快的事。相反的情況，就很令人沮喪。社會(huì)學(xué)家emil，durkheim分析發(fā)現(xiàn)，這提高了自殺率，
there are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. and some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them e_tremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.
追求個(gè)人主義的發(fā)達(dá)國家的自殺率，高過于世界上其它地方，原因是人們把發(fā)生在自己身上的事情，全當(dāng)作自己的責(zé)任，人們擁有成功，也擁有失敗。
is there any relief from some of thesepressures that i"ve been outlining? i think there is. i just want to turn to afew of them. let"s take meritocracy. this idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, i think it"s a crazy idea, completely crazy.
有什么方法可以解決剛才提到的這些焦慮呢?是有的。我想提出幾項(xiàng)，先說"功績(jī)主義"，也就是相信每個(gè)人的地位忠實(shí)呈現(xiàn)他的能力，我認(rèn)為這種想法太瘋狂了，
i will support any politician of left and right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; i am a meritocrat in that sense. but i think it"s insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it"s an impossible dream.
我可以支持所有相信這個(gè)想法的，無論是左傾還是右傾的政治家，我同樣相信功績(jī)主義，但我認(rèn)為一個(gè)完全徹底以能力取決地位的社會(huì)，是個(gè)不可能的夢(mèng)想。
the idea that we will make a society where literally everybody is graded, the good at the top, bad at the bottom, e_actly done as it should be, is impossible. there are simply too many random factors:
這種我們能創(chuàng)造一個(gè)每個(gè)人的能力都忠實(shí)地被分級(jí)，好的就到頂端，壞的就到底部，而且保證過程毫無差錯(cuò)，這是不可能的。這世上有太多偶然的契機(jī)，
accidents, accidents of birth, accidents of things dropping on people"s heads, illnesses, etc. we will never get to grade them, never get to grade people as they should.
不同的機(jī)運(yùn)，出身，疾病，從天而降的意外等等，我們卻無法將這些因素分級(jí)，無法完全忠實(shí)的將人分級(jí)。
i"m drawn to a lovely quote by st. augustine in "the city of god," where he says, "it"s a sin to judge any man by his post." in modern english that would mean it"s a sinto come to any view of who you should talk to, dependent on their business card. it"s not the post that should count.
我很喜歡圣奧古斯丁在"上帝之城"里的一句話，他說"以社會(huì)地位評(píng)價(jià)人是一種罪"。用現(xiàn)在的口吻說，看一個(gè)人的名片來決定你是否要和他交談是罪。
according to st. augustine, only god can really put everybody in their place; he"s going to do that on the day of judgment, with angels and trumpets, and the skies will open. insane idea, if you"re a secularist person, like me.
對(duì)圣奧古斯丁來說，人的價(jià)值不在他的社會(huì)地位，只有神可以決定一個(gè)人的價(jià)值，他將在天使圍繞、小號(hào)奏鳴，天空破開的世界末日給于最后審判，如果你是像我一樣的世俗論者，這想法太瘋狂了，
but something very valuable in that idea, nevertheless.in other words, hold your horses when you"re coming to judge people. you don"t necessarily know what someone"s truevalue is.
但這想法有它的價(jià)值。換句話說，最好在你開口評(píng)論他人之前懸崖勒馬，你很有可能不知道他人的真正價(jià)值，這是不可測(cè)的。
that is an unknown part of them, and we shouldn"t behave as though it is known. there is another source of solace and comfort for all this. when we think about failing in life, when we think about failure, one of the reasons why we fear failing is not just a loss of income, a loss of status.
于是，我們不該為人下定論，還有另一種慰藉，當(dāng)我們想象人生中的失敗，我們恐懼的原因并不只是失去收入，失去地位，
what we fear is the judgment and ridicule of others. and it e_ists.the number one organ of ridicule, nowadays, is the newspaper. if you open the newspaper any day of the week,
我們害怕的是他人的評(píng)論和嘲笑，它的確存在。今日世界上最會(huì)嘲笑人的便是報(bào)紙。每天我們打開報(bào)紙，
it"s full of people who"ve messed up their lives. they"ve slept with the wrong person, taken the wrong substance, passed the wrong piece of legislation -- whatever it is, and then are fit for ridicule. in other words, they have failed.
都能看到那些把生活搞砸的人，他們與錯(cuò)誤對(duì)象共枕，使用錯(cuò)誤藥物，通過錯(cuò)誤法案種種，讓人在茶余飯后拿來挖苦的新聞，這些人失敗了，
and they are described as "losers." now, is there any alternative to this? i think the western tradition shows us one glorious alternative, which is tragedy.
我們稱他們?yōu)?失敗者"，還有其它做法嗎?西方傳統(tǒng)給了我們一個(gè)光榮的選擇，就是"悲劇"。
tragic art, as it developed in the theaters of ancient greece, in the fifth century b.c., was essentially an art form devoted to tracing how people fail, and also according them a level of sympathy, which ordinary life would not necessarily accord them.
悲劇的藝術(shù)來自古希臘。西元前五世紀(jì)，這是一個(gè)專屬于描繪人類失敗過程的藝術(shù)，同時(shí)也加入某種程度的同情。在現(xiàn)代生活并不常給于同情時(shí)。
a few years ago, i was thinking about this, and i went to "the sunday sport," a tabloid newspaper i don"t recommend you start reading if you"re not familiar with it already.
幾年前我思考著這件事，我去見"周日運(yùn)動(dòng)期刊"，如果你還不認(rèn)識(shí)這個(gè)小報(bào)，我建議你也別去讀。
and i went to talk to them about certain of the great tragedies of western art. i wanted to see how they would seize the bare bones of certain stories, if they came in as a news item at the news desk on a saturday afternoon.
我去找他們聊聊，西方藝術(shù)中最偉大的幾個(gè)悲劇故事，我想知道他們會(huì)如何露骨地以新聞的方式，在周日下午的新聞臺(tái)上，呈現(xiàn)這些經(jīng)典悲劇故事。
i mentioned othello; they"d not heard of it but were fascinated.i asked them to write a headline for the story. they came up with "love-crazed immigrant kills senator"s daughter." splashed across the headline.
我談到他們從未耳聞的《奧賽羅》，他們嘖嘖稱奇。我要求他們以奧賽羅的故事寫一句頭條，他們寫道"移民因愛生恨，刺殺參議員之女"大頭條。
i gave them the plotline of madame bovary. again, a book they were enchanted to discover. and they wrote "shopaholic adulteress swallows arsenic after credit fraud."
我告訴他們《包法利夫人》的故事，他們?cè)僖淮胃械襟@異萬分，寫道"不倫購物狂信用欺詐，出墻婦女吞砒霜"。
and then my favorite -- they really do have a kind of genius of their own, these guys -- my favorite is sophocles" oedipus the king: "se_ with mum was blinding."
我最喜歡的是，這些記者真的很有才，我最喜歡的是索?？死账沟摹抖淼移炙雇酢?，"與母親的盲目性愛"。(掌聲)
in a way, if you like, at one end of the spectrum of sympathy, you"ve got the tabloid newspaper. at the other end of the spectrum, you"ve got tragedy and tragic art.
如果同情心的一個(gè)極端，是這些八卦小報(bào)。另一個(gè)極端便是悲劇和悲劇藝術(shù)，
and i suppose i"m arguing that we should learn a little bit about what"s happening in tragic art. it would be insane to call hamlet a loser. he is not a loser, though he has lost.
我想說的是或許我們?cè)搹谋瘎∷囆g(shù)中學(xué)習(xí)，你不會(huì)說漢姆雷特是個(gè)失敗者，雖然他失敗了，他卻不是一個(gè)失敗者。
and i think that is the message of tragedy to us, and why it"s so very, very important, i think.
我想這就是悲劇所要告訴我們的，也是我認(rèn)為非常重要的一點(diǎn)。
the other thing about modern society and why it causes this an_iety, is that we have nothing at its center that is non-human. we are the first society to be living in a world where we don"t worship anything other than ourselves.
現(xiàn)代社會(huì)讓我們焦慮的另一個(gè)緣故是，我們除了人類以外沒有其它重心。我們是從古至今的第一個(gè)無神社會(huì)，除了我們自己以外，
we think very highly of ourselves, and so we should; we"ve put people on the moon, done all sorts of e_traordinary things. and so we tend to worship ourselves.
我們不膜拜任何事物，我們對(duì)自己評(píng)價(jià)極高，為什么不呢，我們把人送上月球，達(dá)成了許多不可思議的事，我們習(xí)慣崇拜自己。
our heroes are human heroes. that"s a very new situation. most other societies have had, right at their center, the worship of something transcendent: a god, a spirit, a natural force, the universe, whatever it is --
我們的英雄是人類，這是一個(gè)嶄新的情況。歷史中大部分的社會(huì)重心都是敬拜一位人類以外的靈體，神，自然力、宇宙，總之是人類以外的什么。
something else that is being worshiped. we"ve slightly lost the habit of doing that, which is, i think, why we"re particularly drawn to nature.
我們逐漸失去了這種習(xí)慣，我想這也是我們?cè)絹碓奖淮笞匀晃脑颉?/p>
not for the sake of our health, though it"s often presented that way, but because it"s an escape from the human anthill. it"s an escape from our own competition, and our own dramas.
雖然我們時(shí)常顯示是為了健康，但我不這么認(rèn)為，我認(rèn)為是為了逃避人群的蟻丘，逃避人們的瘋狂競(jìng)爭(zhēng)，我們的戲劇化，
and that"s why ween joy looking at glaciers and oceans, and contemplating the earth from outside its perimeters, etc. we like to feel in contact with something that is non-human, and that is so deeply important to us.
這便是為什么我們?nèi)绱讼矚g看海、觀賞冰山，從外太空觀賞地球等等，我們希望重新和那些"非人類"的事物有所連接，那對(duì)我們來說很重要。
what i think i"ve been talking about really is success and failure. and one of the interesting things about success is that we think we know what it means. if i said that there"s somebody behind the screen who"s very successful, certain ideas would immediately come to mind.
我一直在談?wù)摮晒褪 ３晒Φ挠腥ぶ幨?，我們時(shí)常以為我們知道成功是什么，如果我現(xiàn)在說，這個(gè)屏幕后面站著一個(gè)非常成功的人，你心里馬上就會(huì)產(chǎn)生一些想法。
you"d think that person might have made a lot of money, achieved renown in some field. my own theory of success -- i"m somebody who"s very interested in success, i really want to be successful, always thinking, how can i be more successful?
你會(huì)想，這個(gè)人可能很有錢，在某些領(lǐng)域赫赫有名，我對(duì)成功的理解是。首先，我是一個(gè)對(duì)成功非常有興趣的人，我想要成功，我總是想著"要怎樣我才能更成功?"，
but as i get older, i"m also very nuanced about what that word "success" might mean.here"s an insight that i"ve had about success: you can"t be successful at everything.
但當(dāng)我漸漸長(zhǎng)大，我越來越疑惑，究竟什么是"成功"的真正意義。我對(duì)成功有一些觀察，你不可能在所有事情上成功。
we hear a lot of talk about work-life balance. nonsense. you can"t have it all. you can"t. so any vision of success has to admit what it"s losing out on, where the element of loss is.
我們常聽到有關(guān)工作和休閑的平衡，鬼話。你不可能全部擁有。你就是不能。所有對(duì)成功的想象，必須承認(rèn)他們同時(shí)也失去了一些東西，放棄了一些東西。
and i think any wise life will accept, as i say, that there is going to be an element where we"re not succeeding.
我想一個(gè)智者能接受，如我所說，總是有什么是我們得不到的。
and the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. they"re sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you"re a man, your father,
常常，我們對(duì)一個(gè)成功人生的想象，不是來自我們自己，而是來自他人。如果你是個(gè)男人，你會(huì)以父親做榜樣，
and if you"re a woman, your mother. psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. no one"s quite listening hard enough, but i very much believe it"s true.
如果你是個(gè)女人，你會(huì)以母親做榜樣，精神分析已經(jīng)重復(fù)說了80年，但很少有人真正聽進(jìn)去。但我的確相信這件事。
and we also suck in messages from everything from the television, to advertising, to marketing, etc. these are hugely powerful forces that define what we want and how we view ourselves.
我們也會(huì)從電視、廣告，各樣的市場(chǎng)宣傳中得到我們對(duì)成功的想象。這些東西影響了我們，對(duì)我們自己的看法、我們想要什么。
when we"re told that banking is a very respectable profession, a lot of us want to go into banking. when banking is no longer so respectable, we lose interest in banking. we are highly open to suggestion.
當(dāng)我們聽說銀行業(yè)是個(gè)受人尊敬的行業(yè)，許多人便加入銀行業(yè)，當(dāng)銀行業(yè)不再受人尊敬，我們便對(duì)銀行業(yè)失去興趣，我們很能接受建議。
so what i want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but we should make sure that they are our own. we should focus in on our ideas, and make sure that we own them; that we are truly the authors of our own ambitions.
我想說的是，我們不該放棄，我們對(duì)成功的想象，但必須確定那些都是我們自己想要的，我們應(yīng)該專注于我們自己的目標(biāo)，確定這目標(biāo)是我們真正想要的，確定這個(gè)夢(mèng)想藍(lán)圖出自自己筆下。
because it"s bad enough not getting what you want, but it"s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want, and find out, at the end of the journey, that it isn"t, in fact, what you wanted all along.
因?yàn)榈貌坏阶约合胍囊呀?jīng)夠糟糕了，更糟糕的是，在人生旅程的終點(diǎn)，發(fā)覺你所追求的從來就不是你真正想要的。
so, i"m going to end it there. but what i really want to stress is: by all means, success, yes. but let"s accept the strangeness of some of our ideas.
我必須在這里做個(gè)總結(jié)，但我真正想說的是，成功是必要的，但請(qǐng)接受自己怪異的想法，
let"s probe away at our notions of success. let"s make sure our ideas of success are truly our own.thank you very much.
朝著自己對(duì)成功的定義出發(fā)，確定我們對(duì)成功的定義都是出于自己的真心。非常感謝各位。
chris anderson: that was fascinating. but how do you reconcile this idea of it being bad to think of someone as a "loser," with the idea that a lot of people like, of seizing control of your life, and that a society that encourages that, perhaps has to have some winners and losers?
主持人：說的真好。你要如何與自己和解，把一個(gè)人稱為失敗者是糟糕的，但許多人都想掌握自己的生活，一個(gè)追求這些的社會(huì)難免要有贏家和輸家。
alain de botton: yes, i think it"s merely the randomness of the winning and losing process that i want to stress, because the emphasis nowadays is so much on the justice of everything, and politicians always talk about justice. now i"m a firm believer in justice, i just think that it"s impossible.
阿蘭?德波頓：是的，我只是想提出，在輸贏的過程中有太多偶然，今日我們太講求所有事情的正義和公平，政治人物總是在談?wù)撜x，我非常支持正義，我只是覺得那不可能，
so we should do everything we can to pursue it, but we should always remember that whoever is facing us, whatever has happened in their lives, there will be a strong element of the haphazard.
我們應(yīng)該盡力，盡力去追求正義，但我們也應(yīng)該記得，我們所面對(duì)的，無論在他們?nèi)松邪l(fā)生過什么，偶然總是一個(gè)強(qiáng)烈的因素，
that"s what i"m trying to leave room for; otherwise, it can get quite claustrophobic.
我希望大家留一點(diǎn)空間這么想，不然真令人有一種幽閉恐怖癥的感覺。
ca: i mean, do you believe that you can combine your kind of kinder, gentler philosophy of work with a successful economy?
主持人：我是說，你是否相信，在這種溫和的哲學(xué)下，可以產(chǎn)生一個(gè)發(fā)達(dá)的經(jīng)濟(jì)?
or do you think that you can"t, but it doesn"t matter that much that we"re putting too much emphasis on that?
還是你認(rèn)為那不可行?還是我們這樣反復(fù)提醒人們也不甚重要?
ab: the nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge.
阿蘭?德波頓：夢(mèng)魘是相信恐嚇人們是刺激他們發(fā)奮的最好辦法，或是環(huán)境越殘酷，就會(huì)有越多人接受挑戰(zhàn)。
you want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? and your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. and it"s a very hard line to make. we need fathers, as it were, the e_emplary father figures in society, avoiding the two e_tremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the la_, no-rules option.
你必須想，你的理想父親是怎樣的?你的理想父親往往是嚴(yán)厲又溫和的，雖然這界限很難畫定，我們社會(huì)需要的模范性人物是像一個(gè)理想父親，不要走極端，不要完全集權(quán)、純粹紀(jì)律，也不要模糊馬虎，亂無規(guī)章。
ca: alain de botton.
ab: thank you very much.
非常感謝.
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演說題目：如何在不過度管教的情況下，培養(yǎng)出成功的孩子!
演說者：julie lythcott-haims
you know, i didn"t set out to be a parenting e_pert. in fact, i"m not very interested in parenting, per se. it"s just that there"s a certain style of parenting these days that is kind of messing up kids, impending their chances to develop into themselves.
我并不打算成為育兒專家。事實(shí)上，我對(duì)育兒本身也不感興趣。只是這些天有某種育兒風(fēng)格的出現(xiàn)，是不利于孩子成長(zhǎng)的，而且阻礙了他們發(fā)展自己的機(jī)會(huì)。
there’s a certain style of parenting these days that’s getting in the way. i guess what i’m saying is, we spend a lot of time being very concerned about parents who aren’t involved enough in the lives of their kids and their education or their upbringing, and rightly so.
某種育兒風(fēng)格的出現(xiàn)正阻礙著孩子的成長(zhǎng)。各位我要說的是，我們把大量的時(shí)間花在關(guān)心哪些父母沒有足夠的參與孩子的生活中，他們的教育或者撫養(yǎng)中，理應(yīng)如此。
but at the other end of the spectrum, there’s a lot of harm going on there as well, where parents feel a kid can’t be successful unless the parent is protecting and preventing at every turn, and hovering over every happening, and micromanaging every moment, and steering their kid towards some small subset of colleges and careers.
但從另外一個(gè)極端來說，這樣做會(huì)有很多的壞處，父母認(rèn)為他們的孩子不會(huì)成功，除非有父母事事的保護(hù)和阻止，對(duì)每件事的權(quán)衡，圍觀管理每個(gè)時(shí)刻并引導(dǎo)他們對(duì)大學(xué)和職業(yè)的選擇。
but not just the grades, the scores, but the accolades and the awards and the sports, the activities, the leadership. we tell our kids, don’t just join a club, start a club, because colleges want to see that. and check the bo_ for community service. i mean, show the colleges you care about others.
但不僅是成績(jī)和分?jǐn)?shù)，更是獲得的表揚(yáng)和獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)，還有運(yùn)動(dòng)活動(dòng)上的，領(lǐng)導(dǎo)力上的榮譽(yù)。我們告訴他們， 別加入俱樂部，自己創(chuàng)建了一個(gè)，因?yàn)榇髮W(xué)想看到這個(gè)，然后檢查信箱關(guān)于社區(qū)服務(wù)的信息。我的意思是，展示給大學(xué)看你是關(guān)心別的。
and all of this is done to some hoped-for degree of perfection. we e_pect our kids to perform at a level of perfection. we were never asked to perform at ourselves, and so because so much is required, we think, well then, of course we parents have to argue with every teacher and principle and coach and referee and act like our kid’s concierge and personal handler and secretary.
這樣做都是為了達(dá)到某種完美程度的期望值。我們期待小孩表現(xiàn)出一定程度的完美。卻沒有要求自己本身去做到，因?yàn)槲覀冋J(rèn)為這樣做太多必要性了，我們?cè)c每一位老師，校長(zhǎng)，教練，裁判員理論過表現(xiàn)的像是小孩的看門人，私人管家和秘書。
and then with our kids, our precious kids, we spend so much time nudging, cajoling, hinting, helping, haggling, nagging as the case may be, to be sure they’re not screwing up, not closing doors, not ruining their future, some hoped-for admission to a tiny handful of colleges that deny almost every applicant.
當(dāng)我們的孩子，最愛的孩子在一起時(shí)，我們根據(jù)情況花大量的時(shí)間催促，誘騙，暗示，幫助，爭(zhēng)論，嘮叨，來確保他們不搞破壞，不關(guān)門，不毀他們的前途，寄予希望他們能上幾乎否認(rèn)每位申請(qǐng)人的為數(shù)不多的大學(xué)。
and they see in our faces that our approval, that our love, that their very worth, comes from a’s. and then we walk alongside them and offer clucking praise like a trainer at the westminster dog show-coa_ing them to just jump a little higher and soar a little farther, day after day after day.
他們從我們臉上看到我們的認(rèn)可和愛，拿a時(shí)是非常有價(jià)值的。于是我們走在他們身邊，給予他們咯咯的表揚(yáng)，像西敏市犬展里的訓(xùn)練員一樣，哄他們跳得更高和飛得更遠(yuǎn)一樣，日復(fù)一日這么做。
and when they get to high school, they don’t say, ‘ well, what might i be interested in studying or doing as an activity?’ they go to counselors and they say,’ what do i need to do to get into the right college?’
好吧，要是我對(duì)學(xué)習(xí)或者某種活動(dòng)感興趣呢?他們會(huì)找到顧問并說，"要上到好的大學(xué)，我需要做點(diǎn)什么?"
and then, when the grades start to roll in in high school, and they’re getting some b’s, or god forbid some c’s, they frantically te_t their friends and say, ‘has anyone ever gotten into the right college with these grades?’
高中成績(jī)出現(xiàn)波動(dòng)的時(shí)候，他們拿到的是b或者c，他們火急火燎地發(fā)短信給他們的朋友并說道,"有人以這種成績(jī)上到好的大學(xué)嗎?"
and our kids, regardless of where they end up at the end of high school, they’re breathless. they’re a little burned out. they’re a little old before their time, wishing the grow-ups in their lives had said,’what you’ve done in enough, this effort you’ve put forth in childhood is enough.’
我們的孩子，不管他們是從哪所高中畢業(yè)，他們喘不過氣來，他們?nèi)菀咨鷼?，他們有點(diǎn)精疲力盡了。他們年長(zhǎng)了一些，并希望大人們說你所做的已經(jīng)足夠了，你童年所付出的努力已經(jīng)足夠了。
but if you llok at what we’ve done, if you have the courage to really look at it, you’ll see that not only do our kids think their worth comes from grades and scores, but that when we live right up inside their precious developing minds all the time, like our own version of the movie ‘being john malkovich,’ we send our children the message: ‘hey kid, i don’t think you can actually achieve any of this without me.’
但假如你看看你所做的，如果你真的有勇氣看的話，你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)孩子認(rèn)為，他們的價(jià)值不僅僅來源于成績(jī)和分?jǐn)?shù)，并且我們很多時(shí)候存在于他們珍貴，正在形成的思想中。就想電影約翰.馬爾科維奇的自己版本，我們向孩子傳遞這樣的信息：我認(rèn)為你要有我時(shí)你才能完成這些。
so simply put, if our children are to develop self-efficacy, and they must, then they hav to do a whole lot more of the thinking, planning, deciding, doing, hoping, coping, trial and error, dreaming, and e_periencing of life for themselves。
所以簡(jiǎn)單地來說，如果我們的孩子建立了自我效能感，那么他們必須做出更多人生的思考，計(jì)劃，決定，活動(dòng)，希望，應(yīng)對(duì)，試錯(cuò)，夢(mèng)想，和自己的經(jīng)歷。
now, am i saying every kid is hard-working and motivated and doesn’t need a parent’s involvement or interest in their lives, and we should just back off and let go? hell no. that is not what i’m saying. what i’m saying is, when we treat grades and scores and accolades and awards as the purpose of childhood, all in furtherance of some hoped-for admission to a tiny number of colleges or entrance to a small number of careers, that ’s too narrow a definition of success for our kids.
現(xiàn)在，我說的是每位孩子都很用功和有上進(jìn)心，不需要父母的參與或?qū)λ麄兊娜松信d趣。我們只需要退后和放手?顯然不是。這不是我說的。我要說的是，當(dāng)我們把成績(jī)和分?jǐn)?shù)，榮譽(yù)和獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)作為孩子童年的目的時(shí)，寄予希望他們能進(jìn)入為數(shù)不多的大學(xué)和某個(gè)職位時(shí)，那么以這種定義孩子的成敗太狹義了。
and even though we might help them achieve some short-term wins by overhelping like they get a better grade if we help them do their homework, they might end up with a longer childhood resume when we help-what i’m saying is that all of this comes at a long-term cost to their sense of self. what i’m saying is , we should be less concerned with the specific set of colleges they might be able to apply to or might get into and far more concerned that they have the habits, the mindset, the skill set, the wellness, to be successful wherever they go.
盡管我們通過過度幫忙實(shí)現(xiàn)了他們的短期勝利，就像我們協(xié)助他們做作業(yè)可能拿到更高分，在我們的協(xié)助下他們可能會(huì)以更長(zhǎng)的童年履歷結(jié)束，我想說的是所有這些長(zhǎng)期的代價(jià)，需基于自我意識(shí)。我想說的是，我們需要給予更少的關(guān)注，對(duì)于他們具體可能會(huì)申請(qǐng)哪所大學(xué)，參與給予更多的關(guān)注在他們形成的習(xí)慣，心態(tài)，技能，健康，無論他們?nèi)ツ膬憾寄艹晒Φ哪芰Α?/p>
what i’m saying is, our kids need us to be a little less obsessed with grades and scores and a whole lot more interested in childhood providing a foundation for their success built on things like love and chores.
我想說的是，我們的孩子需要我們對(duì)他們的成績(jī)和分?jǐn)?shù)少一點(diǎn)關(guān)注，對(duì)他們的童年多一份關(guān)心。為他們的成功提供基礎(chǔ)，比如在愛和家務(wù)活。
did i just say chores? did i just say chores? i really did. but really, here’s why. the longest longitudinal study of humans ever conducted is called the harvard grant study. it found that professional success in life, which is what we want for our kids, that professional success in life comes from having dong chores as a kid, and the earlier you started, the better, that a roll-up-your-sleeves.
我說家務(wù)活了嗎?我說家務(wù)活了嗎?我的確說了。原因如下，有史以來最長(zhǎng)的縱向人類學(xué)研究是哈佛格蘭特研究。研究發(fā)現(xiàn)生活中的職業(yè)成功，是我們想讓孩子得到的。生活中的職業(yè)成功來自于孩子從小做家務(wù)活，越早開始越好，卷起衣袖。
and pitch in mindest, a mindset that says, there’s some unpleasant work, someone’s got to do it, it might as well be me, a mindset that says, i will contribute my effort to the betterment of the whole, that’s what gets you ahead in the workplace.
一種出一份力的心態(tài)，有些不盡人意的活，不得不去做的，這個(gè)人可能是我，我將貢獻(xiàn)我的努力去改善，這點(diǎn)會(huì)使你在職場(chǎng)中遙遙領(lǐng)先。
now, we all know this. you know this. we all know this, and yet, in the checklisted childhood, we absolve our kids of doing the work of chores around the house, and then they end up as young adults in the workplace still waiting for a checklist, but it doesn’t e_ist, and more importantly, lacking the impulse, the instinct to roll up their sleeves, and pitch in and look around and wonder, how can i be useful to my colleagues?how can i anticipate a few steps ahead to what my boss might need?
現(xiàn)在，我們都知道這點(diǎn)，你也知道。我們都知道這些，然而在清單式童年中，我們不要孩子來做家務(wù)，他們最終成為職場(chǎng)中的年輕人，仍舊等待著不存在的清單，更重要的是他們?nèi)狈_動(dòng)，卷起衣袖的本能，貢獻(xiàn)一份力量并環(huán)顧四周想知道，怎樣我才能有所作為?我怎么能提前預(yù)測(cè)幾步知道老板需要什么?
a second very important finding from the harvard grand study said that happiness in life comes from love, not love of work, love of humans: our spouse, our partner, our friends, our family.
哈佛格蘭特研究中第二個(gè)非常重要的發(fā)現(xiàn)是生活中的快樂來源于愛，不是對(duì)工作的愛，而是人與人之間的愛：我們的愛人，伙伴，朋友，假如。
so childhood needs to teach our kids how to love, and the they can’t love others if they don’t first love themselves, and they won’t themselves if we can’t offer them unconditional love.
因此從小需要教孩子如何去愛，如果不首先愛上自己，就不能愛別人，如果我們沒有提供無條件的愛，他們就無法愛自己。
right. and so, instead of being obsessed with grades and scores, when our precious offspring come home from school, or we come home from work, we need to close our technology, put away our phones, and look them in the eye, and let them see the joy that fills our faces, when we see our child for the first time in a few hours.
因此與其沉迷于成績(jī)和分?jǐn)?shù)，當(dāng)我們最愛的孩子放學(xué)回家時(shí)，或者我們下班回家，我們需要關(guān)閉設(shè)備，放下手機(jī)，看著他們的眼睛，讓他們看到我們滿臉的快樂。
and then we have to say,’ how was your day? what did you like about today?’ and when your teenage daughter says,’lunch,’ like mine did, and i want to hear about the math test, not lunch, you have to still take an interest in lunch. you gotta say, ‘what was great about lunch today?’
我們應(yīng)該說，你今天怎么樣啦?今天你喜歡的事情是什么?當(dāng)你女兒說，"午餐，" 和我一樣，我想聽的是數(shù)學(xué)測(cè)驗(yàn)而不是午餐，你應(yīng)該仍然把注意力放在午餐上。你要說"今天的午餐好在哪里啊?"
they need to know they matter to us as humans, not because of their gpa. all right, so you’re thinking, chores and love, that sounds all well and good, but give me a break. the colleges want to see top scores and grades and accolades and awards, and i’m going to tell you, sort of.
他們需要知道他們對(duì)我們來說很重要，這并不是因?yàn)樗麄兊钠骄煽?jī)。現(xiàn)在你正在想著家務(wù)活和愛。這聽起來不錯(cuò)，但讓我休息一下。大學(xué)想要看到高分?jǐn)?shù)好成績(jī)和榮譽(yù)獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)，我想說的是，在一定程度上是。
the very biggest brand-name schools are asking that of our young adults, but here’s the good news. contrary to what the college rankings racket would have us believe-you don’t have to go to one of the biggest brand name schools to be happy and successful in life.
最有名的名牌大學(xué)會(huì)問年輕人，但這里有好消息。相反美國大學(xué)排行榜讓我們相信-你不一定非要去最有名的一所大學(xué)才算得上快樂和成功。
happy and successful people went to state school, went to a small college no one has heard of, went to community college, went to a college over here and flunked out.
快樂和成功的人們?nèi)スW(xué)校，去一些沒人聽過的大學(xué)，或者社區(qū)大學(xué)，來到大學(xué)，考試不及格。
the evidence is in this room, is in our communities, that this is the truth. and if we could widen our blinders and be willing to look at a few more colleges, maybe remove our own egos from the equation, we could accept and embrace this truth and then realize, it is hardly the end of the world, if our kids don’t go to one of those big brand-name schools.
證據(jù)就在我們這里，在我們的社區(qū)，這是事實(shí)。如果我們可以拓寬眼界，并樂意多看幾所大學(xué)，也許能從這種情況中消除自我，我們接受這個(gè)事實(shí)并意識(shí)到，如果我們的孩子不能上名牌大學(xué)，這不是世界末日。
and more importantly, if their childhood has not been lived, according to tyrannical checklist then when they get to college, whichever one it is, well, they’ll have gone there on their own volition, fueled by their own desire, capable and ready to thrive there.
更重要的是，如果他們的童年不是遵循殘暴的清單，那么當(dāng)他們上了大學(xué)，無論哪一所大學(xué)，他們是憑著意志力取得的，由他們自己的渴望促成，有能力茁壯成長(zhǎng)。
i have to admit something to you. i’ve got two kids i mentioned, sawyer and avery. they’re teenagers. and once upon a time, i think i was treating my sawyer and avery like little bonsai trees-that i was going to carefully clip and prune and shape into some perfect form of a human one of the most highly selective colleges.
我不得不向你們承認(rèn)，之前提到的那兩個(gè)孩子索耶和艾佛利。他們是青少年，曾經(jīng)幾何，我認(rèn)為我對(duì)待索耶和艾佛利像小盆景，我要仔細(xì)修剪形成某些人類的完美形式，其中一所名牌大學(xué)。
but i’ve come to realize, after working with thousands of other people’s kids-and raising two kids of my own, my kids aren’t bonsai trees. they’re wildflowers of an unknown genus and species-and it’s my job to provide a nourishing environment, to strengthen them through chores and to love them so they can love others and receive love and the college, the major, the career, that’s up to them.
但我已經(jīng)意識(shí)到，在與成千上萬個(gè)孩子一起工作后，并自己培育兩個(gè)小孩，我的小孩不是盆景數(shù)。他們是未知物種的野花，我的工作是提供營養(yǎng)豐富的環(huán)境，從家務(wù)活和愛他們中讓他們變的更加堅(jiān)強(qiáng)，因此他們能愛別人并接受到愛，對(duì)于大學(xué)，專業(yè)，職業(yè)，這取決于他們。
my job is not to make them become what i would have them become, but to support them in becoming their glorious selves.thank you!
我的工作不是使他們成為我所想的模樣，而是支持他們成為最好的自己。謝謝。
